A. J. Sass
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Award-winning author, figure skater, & typewriter tinkerer ⛸️ Ana on the Edge ✈️ Ellen Outside the Lines ⛺️ Camp QUILTBAG 📚 Just Shy of Ordinary ✡️ Shabbat Is ... rep: @thejordache.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/matokah | 📍SF + VT
"In Boise, the small but courageous flagpole gesture was felt earnestly. One Idahoan who stopped to admire the new display expressed just how important it was to see the city fighting back. "'I feel loved,' he told local news. 'I feel accepted by the people that matter. I feel hope.'”
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 6mo ago1. Idaho banned the pride flag on government property. So Boise made the pride flag their official city flag, which allowed them to fly it. Then Idaho banned new city flags. So in response, Boise has now wrapped the poles themselves in rainbows! Subscribe to support our journalism.
The violation of privacy this testing implementation imposes is insurmountable. It basically lets the entire world know when a woman athlete has an intersex condition, even if she was unaware prior to testing. The last time this rule was in effect, it literally led to a suicide.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 6mo agoOlympic legends Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird have denounced the Olympics trans athlete ban. They call out the mass testing regime that will be implemented on women and the harm it will cause. “Can we focus our resources into real problems women’s sports face?” Subscribe to support our journalism.
anti-trans virtue signaling that is not going to last, because a LOT of cis athletes are about to find out they are intersex
Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 6mo agoThe IOC has come out with its policy for the banning of trans women in elite sports on the basis of the presence of the SRY gene and will require all athletes competing in the women’s sport category to do a DNA swab in order to compete:
Getting a book banned isn't an honor and also it's bad for sales.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
Happy Trans Day of Visibility to my trans&NB friends!🏳️⚧️ To celebrate why not buy a #kidlit or #YA book feat. trans/NB characters & authors? Here are some faves (deets in alt txt); more suggestions welcome! @sassinsf.com @aprildaniels.bsky.social @justinepwinans.bsky.social @kylelukoff.bsky.social
This would've made past-me, who was a Georgian during middle school, so happy. It makes present-me, who is exhausted from all the hateful bills getting passed elsewhere and desperately in need of a win, so happy too 👏
Georgia Equality@georgiaequality.org · 6mo agoBREAKING: After a late night at the Capitol to finish out the 2026 legislative session, we could not be more excited to share that WE DID IT! We successfully defeated ALL of the nearly 15 pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation! Swipe to read our full statement:
Love this PW interview with my client Andrew Keenan-Bolger about this inspiration for his debut YA novel LIMELIGHT. Out today! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Q & A with Andrew Keenan-Bolger
We spoke with multi-hyphenate Broadway actor, instructor, podcaster, and author Andrew Keenan-Bolger about his YA debut, 'Limelight,' the importance of theater for young people, and the role history p...
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Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
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Today we remember the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day and every day, we recommit to standing up against antisemitism and ensure that the horrors of the Holocaust are never forgotten.
Grateful that the Champlain Valley School District (VT) is pushing back against this attempt to ban trans girls from girls sports, as well as several districts in California. www.sevendaysvt.com/news/trans-a...
Trans Athlete Policy Prompts Federal Probe of Champlain Valley Schools | Seven Days
The district was one of 18 educational entities that are under investigation for allowing students to play on the sports team that aligns with their gender identity.
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So proud of my state's efforts to protect trans youth!
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 9mo ago1. Good news for trans people in Vermont. A bill was just filed that would fund private trans youth care clinics across the state. It would be a major shield from Trump funding threats which have caused hospitals to shut their doors. But it has to pass first. Subscribe to support our journalism.
I'm gonna read a boatload of queer books. And write some too. I'm looking forward to both. Happy New Year.
Minovsky@minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 9mo agoGive yourself something to look forward to next year. Something less substantial than a resolution which can carry regret if you can't stick to it. Think of a book you want to read, a genre of music you'd like to learn more about, a curiosity to chase no matter how trivial. Keep your spark lit.
2025 was *brutal*, in all those personal hard to explain ways I don’t really share online. It was also marbled with love and little moments of sweetness that made it survivable. I don’t know if I have the right to expect better in 2026, but I’m gonna look hard for the love
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow@tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 10mo agoI'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
I went to bed last night thinking about the shooting at Brown University and woke up to the news about the shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia. This is a sick planet. George Carlin said it best: "Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet."
Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social · 10mo agoAt least 11 people were killed by gunmen who targeted a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Please consider signing this petition to stop this debate and read the comments from alumni and students at the school expressing their thoughts on why this event should not be happening at their public high school. www.change.org/p/stop-the-w...
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Stop the WHS TPUSA club from pushing bigotry into our school.
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A local Irvine high school's Turning Point USA club has organized a debate on “transgenderism and same sex marriage”. Not only are people’s lives and identities not up for debate, but this is also dangerous, thinly veiled bigotry. I have friends with queer kids at this school and I'm livid.
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Stop the WHS TPUSA club from pushing bigotry into our school.
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I've got a poem in NO BRAIN THE SAME. I'm so excited for everyone to see this special book next year!
Keila V. Dawson@keilavdawson.bsky.social · 11mo agoProofs! NO BRAIN THE SAME, the third book in our young activists series with @lindsayhmetcalf.bsky.social and @jbradley.bsky.social coming June 2 to a shelf near you. The poems: inspirational. The art: spectacular. 💕📚💕 #NBTS #poetry #pb #neurodivergence #edusky #librarians #teachers #allies #book
Shabbat Is and Just Shy of Ordinary made this list!
LGBTQReads@lgbtqreads.bsky.social · 11mo agoGift Guide: Chanukah/Hanukkah 5786 Give a loved one celebrating the Festival of Lights the joy of queer Jewish literature! Kids Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown – to the library, to the dentist, even…
Happy news! THE BI BOOK by Cynthia Alonso and me made ALA Booklist’s 2025 Editors’ Choice Books for Youth list! We are honored! Congratulations to all the creators of these fantastic books! ✨ tinyurl.com/5xkyavh6 #kidlit #booksky
Oh hey, another reason to hate this timeline - attempts to deport people INDIGENOUS to North America. Make it make sense
Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 11mo ago📍 𝐃𝐄𝐒 𝐌𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐄, 𝐈𝐎𝐖𝐀: A Native American woman was nearly deported after a jail mistakenly placed an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer on her file — despite her clear tribal identity and legal status. #AbuseofPowerWatch
🤡 🤡 🤡 I am literally supposed to travel out of the country next week. Someone go to DC and smack these policymakers upside their heads for me pls
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 11mo ago1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports. This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Ughhh. So, what, this means the passport I paid for is unusable AGAIN?
ACLU@aclu.org · 11mo agoBREAKING: The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to enforce its discriminatory passport policy while our lawsuit makes its way through the courts. This decision undermines the freedom of transgender, non-binary, and intersex people to have our IDs reflect who we are.
I thought when I wrote Ana on the Edge, we wouldn’t still be talking about trans folks’ place in sports half a decade later. Yet here we are. This is such a disappointing decision, to restrict those competing in women’s skating events by the sex on their original birth certificate.
audrey@trubble.bsky.social · 11mo agoThis fucking sucks! I did find a place in this community and now I will be excluded from participating as myself. Really, really sad. The ice has been a place I go to clear my mind and that has been robbed from me.
